Best known for couture wedding gowns, Galia Lahav is one of the major players in the wave of Israeli designers making a mark on the international bridal industry. (photo from Instagram) With fashion accessible at our fingertips via e-commerce, shopping apps…
(Michel Rathwell) .משרדי הרשות המיסוי הקנדית באוטווה רשות המיסוי הקנדית (הסי.אר.איי) הודיעה במהלך החודש שעבר לארגון היהודי-חרדי “בית עולות” מטורונטו, כי הוא יאבד את מעמדו כגוף צדקה לצורכי מס. זאת כיוון שהארגון העביר תרומות למכינות קדם-צבאיות בישראל ולגופים הנמצאים מעבר לקו…
In New York for the 2018 International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (photo from Lubavitch BC) Last month, nine shluchos (female emissaries) of Chabad-Lubavitch in British Columbia – Henia Wineberg, Rivki Yeshayahu, Chanie Kaplan, Shainy Wineberg, Fraidy Hecht, Chanie Baitelman,…
Esther Edel (right) has participated in the Run 4 Afikim twice. (photo from Esther Edel) The annual Run 4 Afikim supports Afikim, a nonprofit organization in Israel that addresses child poverty. One of the participants in the run – for…
Waterfalls in the Golan Heights. (photo by Michael Davis courtesy Ashernet) Water from the Golan Heights region’s streams, as well as melting snow from Mount Hermon, will eventually find their way into the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Unfortunately, even though…
סמנכ”ל הכספים וסגן יו”ר מועצת המנהלים של ענקית התקשורת הסינית וואווי, מאנג וואנז’ו (2014). ארה”ב הגישה סוף סוף את הבקשה הרשמית לקנדה להסגיר לידה את סמנכ”ל הכספים וסגן יו”ר מועצת המנהלים של ענקית התקשורת הסינית וואווי, מאנג וואנז’ו. זאת, לאור…
Teen activists talk with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart at a climate-strike action on Dec. 7. (photo from Rebecca Hamilton) “It’s going to be our future, so it’s up to us to take it into our own hands and show that,…
Rebecca Teitelbaum’s recipe book was compiled in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, circa 1940s. It is from the Teitelbaum, Buckman family fonds, VHEC Collections. This article is based on remarks delivered at the screening of the film Who Will Write Our…
Students at the Bachar school in Even Yehuda, which educates for leadership and entrepreneurship, prepare to welcome a delegation of educators from developing countries, who came to learn how Israeli schools educate for entrepreneurship. (photo from Galit Zamler) For Galit…
Between 1948 and 1951, more than 121,000 Jews were smuggled out of Iraq in operations Ezra and Nehemia. Many of those who came to Israel settled in the town of Or Yehuda, some 10 kilometres southeast of Tel Aviv. In…
